+1 to all the +1ers! :thumbsup:
This thread just proves no-one knows what's happening. To invite individuals to actually attend scientific conferences sounds interesting but if they have not been trained to assimilate and sort information in a logical manner they would likely come away more confused than when they went in even if they understood at least some of the science which they probably wouldn't.
There is not a trustworthy enough vehicle in the world to explain the CC science to the common man in a way that he would a) believe, or b) understand.
By 'common man' I mean average Joes like me with minimal education and dirty hands who make up the vast majority of the global population. We are the 'swing voters' of society, it's us you have to convince not the clever buggers like lawyers, scientists, doctors, engineers or anyone else who values their own opinion above others because it's in their professional nature to do so.
None of the arguments are reaching these ears and these are the voices who can make or resist change - or do we have to sit back and allow our scientific 'betters' to dictate to us?
As I recall, in a democratic society, we elect leaders to speak for us, and if we have decent leaders we need not concern ourselves with any other task than our personal survival except to decide who is the right representative.
Referendum is a buzz word in Europe but it is a pointless and undemocratic process and a tool used by Governments to avoid making unpopular decisions. If we do not trust our politicians to make the right choices for us and clearly many of us don't because of the immoral and illegal behaviour of many the past decade, why should we trust the views of unelected clever buggers who's very words can around like gobbledy gook and who's extremely alarmist views often frighten the shit out of everyone?
No-one (at least at my level) in my neighbourhood understands this issue. No-one talks about it at street level because everyone is busy trying to survive the effects of 15 years of inept and dishonest Government. No-one even wants to talk about it because we know (at our level) there is nothing that we can do as individuals to change almost anything, so why bother wasting breath?
I am not an advocate for or against the perils or not of climate change.
Am I worried about it? Hell no.
Will the Earth die because of man? Probably not.
Will Man die because of the Earth? Probably not.
Will Man die because of Man? Probably.
To tackle any of the world's problems piecemeal seems to me a pointless excerise when you could absolutely affect at your own level future world planning, and by that I mean electing the right representatives that DONT have agendas, flavours, wings and rich daddies.
Almost every debate on any issue that concerns us ends up with a left/right harangue which then means stalemate.
And that is the REAL bullshit.
Signed: A common barely educated man like millions of others who have far more important life changing things to think about before we even get to...you know what..like putting food on the table today.
"al salamo alaykom wa rahmat allah wa barakato"
Just keeping thread on topic..
